2020 Watch

The 2020 Iowa Caucus may be a long way’s away, but that’s not keeping ambitious national Democrats from making multiple trips out to the lead-off state well ahead of time. With no clear front-runner waiting in the wings, all number of Democratic elected officials have shown up in Iowa, meeting with activists and keynoting major party fundraisers. Some are clearly thinking about presidential runs (or, in Congressman John Delaney’s case, is already running), while others are simply using it as a chance to boost their profile.

Starting Line is launching a simple tracker of sorts to catalogue each potential 2020 candidate’s visits here since the 2016 election. We’ll include anyone who seems to be actively considering the party’s presidential nomination, as well as those who have been mentioned for it often. I personally doubt half of the people in our initial list will launch a 2020 bid, but it’s good to keep track of their Iowa stops all the same.

I will update this as much as possible as Democrats announce future visits. Shoot me an email if you can think of any visits since November 2016 I missed. I don’t like the formatting I have right now, but I’ll change that later. You can also look at in spreadsheet format here.